As If She Had a Say, the second story collection from Jennifer Fliss, uses an absurdist lens to showcase characters—predominantly women—plumbing their resources in the face of misogyny, abuse, and grief.
The characters in the twelve stories in The Archivists are everyday people, but when private losses or the shocks of history set their worlds reeling, they find connection and liberation in surprising, buoyant ways.
In this short-story collection, myth and folklore interweave with present-day realities in Turkey, touching on ethnicity, religious dogma, gender, and sexuality.
All Roads explores childhood trauma, addiction, and the reckless materialism of mainstream American culture. Set mostly in Chicago, the stories depict the idiosyncratic forms of refuge we take in a culture that demands our self-objectification.
Translated by Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin
This book highlights a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. The collected stories, spanning Austro-Hungary and New York City, depict young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them.
This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New York. As adults, Ray has found success while Scotty struggles, but both seek love, comfort, and a place in the world.
The surreal and the familiar clash in these stories, to visceral effect. The collection is eerie, hilarious, moving, and down-to-earth, even as its characters defy the rules—sometimes in the ways we wish we could.
This collection of stories from celebrated author Dilip Kumar offers a distinct perspective on everyday life in the South Indian cities of Coimbatore and Chennai. The stories set in the Sowcarpet neighborhood of Chennai give readers a glimpse into the orthodox world of Gujarati Vaishnavas, transplants from the northwestern region of Kutch, who find themselves living usually at odds—and occasionally in harmony—with the Tamil-speaking community.
In A.G. Mojtabai's new novel, Shine on Me, a group of contestants vie to win a pick-up truck by keeping their hands on its hood, an endurance test based on an actual Texas car dealership's competition. What appears to be, on the surface, realism, is in fact closer to allegory; and though she could not be more stylistically different, a novel like Shine On reveals Mojtabai to be closer in sensibility to a Marilynne Robinson than to any other "realist" writers working today.
An American odyssey in miniature, Pike and Bloom maps the trajectories of three characters—Pike, Bloom, and Clytie—as they spiral through "the serious blues of Indianapolis," attempting to construct meaning from the absurd.
